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on our end, education and the education office works tirelessly to prepare students for their experience here. and to also educate potential students on the opportunity. as i've often said to the ambassador, i know of no area where two embassies were closer together. but the shared interest in education goes well beyond the students. saudi arabia is building new universities for men and women all over the kingdom. they have gone from eight to 26 universities in the last decade, and there are many u.s. universities engaged with each of these universities. we have professional exchanges. there is a boom market for the teaching of english. and we are beginning to see more in the way of exchanges. modern technology has made an elective education a reality. i saw this firsthand. in an engineering competition and the university of colorado. american companies are actively involved in the kingdom's effort to improve k-12 curriculum. keep in mind that saudi arabia is spending 26% of their budget on education. it is third-seeded american educators and businesses are supporting in a big way this m
on our end, education and the education office works tirelessly to prepare students for their experience here. and to also educate potential students on the opportunity. as i've often said to the ambassador, i know of no area where two embassies were closer together. but the shared interest in education goes well beyond the students. saudi arabia is building new universities for men and women all over the kingdom. they have gone from eight to 26 universities in the last decade, and there are...
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to our education. thank you. >> moderator: senator? your response. mccaskill: i'm grateful to my public education. all through school and undergraduate and law school a proud graduate of the university of missouri. it allowed me to be who i am today. four country it allows us to be the beacon on the hill. other countries of the world look to our country to the emphasis on public education and higher education. congressman akin has been clear. he wants the federal government completely out of education. no more department of education, no more school lunch program, and even harder to understand do away with pell grants. do away with all federally backed student loans. no he thinks private banks that should do. i don't know many private banks that loan money to a 17-year-old that has no money. 300,000 young people in missouri are attending college because a federally backed student loan or pell grant is helping them. that was me. i had a federally backed student loan. i couldn't have gotten through loot
to our education. thank you. >> moderator: senator? your response. mccaskill: i'm grateful to my public education. all through school and undergraduate and law school a proud graduate of the university of missouri. it allowed me to be who i am today. four country it allows us to be the beacon on the hill. other countries of the world look to our country to the emphasis on public education and higher education. congressman akin has been clear. he wants the federal government completely out...
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part of the issues education for people in the audience is, you write these reports. who do you think your audience is? >> with multiple audiences. our audience is partly -- we have an obligation by statute to report both to the attorney general, the head of the agency and to congress to keep them currently and fully informed of any problems we found. so our audiences are multiple. one, it's the agency itself, the people who are running the program. two, the congress which has oversight over the programs, and i think they have an important right to know. and three, two large extent the american people. the american people have a right to know how their government is operating, it is having problems, have how it can be improved. we thought we should make that known and write our report for those multiple audiences because i always told people we need to write us a technical expert technical expert understands and recognizes that there's benefit in the report, and by. we need to write it so that a member of congress who picks it up will understand what's going on and on
part of the issues education for people in the audience is, you write these reports. who do you think your audience is? >> with multiple audiences. our audience is partly -- we have an obligation by statute to report both to the attorney general, the head of the agency and to congress to keep them currently and fully informed of any problems we found. so our audiences are multiple. one, it's the agency itself, the people who are running the program. two, the congress which has oversight...
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i hope the conversation turns to education. how we can improve the quality-of-life, and i hope you turn back the bypass because this is an important issue. >> you then have 30 seconds. >> there are 3 billion people in the world looking for jobs. there are 1.2 billion available so we are literally in a global war for jobs which means we are in a global war for talent and it's by the quality of schools, defined by the quality of work force and by having nice outdoor spaces so when he disagrees on the idea on the white house, the government is in a unique position to do that. they aren't going to invest in bypass. they have something to do if your family and having to enjoy. i'm proud of that. >> moderator: the one minute rebuttal. >> that was his one minute rebuttal but i need to shift things back over. >> very quickly, 30,200 unemployed people, 30,000 unemployed people, 152,000 people on food stamps, that is $13 million on the bypass. >> moderator: i do need to turn it over to the issue of education. >> moderator: so there is a
i hope the conversation turns to education. how we can improve the quality-of-life, and i hope you turn back the bypass because this is an important issue. >> you then have 30 seconds. >> there are 3 billion people in the world looking for jobs. there are 1.2 billion available so we are literally in a global war for jobs which means we are in a global war for talent and it's by the quality of schools, defined by the quality of work force and by having nice outdoor spaces so when he...
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education is need to be reformed. political systems need to be reformed. the economy need to be reformed. everything we -- gadhafi left for us just with destructions. in every libyan city you find what gadhafi left is destruction behind him. i want to tell you that we are confident, that we will achieve our goals. but we cannot achieve our goals just by what i am telling you now. the new government, the new prime minister was elected, and he has to present his government in the next few days. and this, there is a great respondent for the new -- respondent for the new, for this new government. i don't want the united states or our alliance or our friends to lose confidence. i want them to be confident in libyan future. the libyans are very serious about their future. they sacrifice more than 25,000 young people and children and women were or killed during the eight months of war. then, again, the libyan people who stand for gadhafi, they stand for the terrorists also. we -- the one who take responsible for the action against the american embassy are not the
education is need to be reformed. political systems need to be reformed. the economy need to be reformed. everything we -- gadhafi left for us just with destructions. in every libyan city you find what gadhafi left is destruction behind him. i want to tell you that we are confident, that we will achieve our goals. but we cannot achieve our goals just by what i am telling you now. the new government, the new prime minister was elected, and he has to present his government in the next few days....
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not a single one of those votes were dealing with education or a single one on gun control. all things that i think are important to people in the tenth district and i think are critical votes get my opponent doesn't want to talk about it. schneider: if you look at the record this congress which is the most ineffective congress we have had in our lifetime you voted on the ryan plan that takes medicare and turns it into a voucher program. he voted with congress over 200 times against our environment and over 28 times against obamacare. he has voted with them on issue after issue on every -- >> moderator: congressman's dold you voted against obamacare. why? dold: if we look at the affordable care act, we can agree there things are things that are very -- i think we want to call it by its name and frankly i don't want to offend somebody that might want to call it something else but the long and short of it is i think we have 21 new taxes on this. the estimates in terms of the cost estimates on the new set of 10 years doubled so this is going to be enormously troubling. schneide
not a single one of those votes were dealing with education or a single one on gun control. all things that i think are important to people in the tenth district and i think are critical votes get my opponent doesn't want to talk about it. schneider: if you look at the record this congress which is the most ineffective congress we have had in our lifetime you voted on the ryan plan that takes medicare and turns it into a voucher program. he voted with congress over 200 times against our...
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that's education, innovation in research, and infrastructure. i think those are the key ingredients that not only help us build in the short term and address those families just struggling to get by, help them get ahead once again, but it also helps us in the longer term. >> moderator: governor, respond to the question. you can respond what she said about you, but what's job one for you? thompson: job one is to balance the budget. we're going for a fiscal crisis, and if we don't address t we'll be in a fiscal abyss. a child tonight born here in milwaukee is $51 is ,000 in -- $51,000 in debt. our budget is absolutely heading towards a fiscal abyss unless we do something, and the congress has not passed a budget in three and a half years. when i was governor, i passedded a budget every year, balanced it, and at the same time i was governor, we created a 742,000 jobs, 88,000s in manufacturing, and what the congresswoman said about me, advising -- that's a figment of her imagination. i was in the state of wisconsin as president and chairman of the l
that's education, innovation in research, and infrastructure. i think those are the key ingredients that not only help us build in the short term and address those families just struggling to get by, help them get ahead once again, but it also helps us in the longer term. >> moderator: governor, respond to the question. you can respond what she said about you, but what's job one for you? thompson: job one is to balance the budget. we're going for a fiscal crisis, and if we don't address t...